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The point of taking the survey isn't to have fun doing it but to contribute to what may be an interesting picture of the area and the people who comprise it once all the data is collected. Though the survey questions seemed a bit unfocused and scattershot. Hopefully, the survey was designed by someone who knows what they're doing and what the results of a sampling such as this would mean.

No, but it would reduce the debt by 1 trillion dollars. Couple that with ending the undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, remove coroporate subsidies and tax loopholes, and we're within striking distance of a balanced budget without cutting anything. If Bush hadn't been elected and if the borrow-and-spend Republicans hadn't run the table for much of the 00's, we'd have a small deficit right now due to the economic downturn and have spent much of the 00's with surpluses. What a decade of fiscal irresponsibility can do to US!

Ahh, a constitutional expert! Seems to me it all depends upon how Anthony Kennedy reads the commerce clause eh? Does he see purchase or non-purchase of insurance as participation in commerce? Will he side with Republican and Democratic economists and agree that not purchasing insurance is itself participation, since it only delays your utilization of health care? Or will he take the radical activist road with Roberts et al and attack the underlying view that federal government has the power to nudge economic behavior through tax penalties etc. (which is deeply engrained in our tax code and with significant precedent). At least that's how I understand it, but then I'm not a constitutional expert.

Why do so many people forget that the individual mandate was the Republican idea for preserving the free market's role in health care? What do you really think the alternative will be? With any luck we'll join the rest of the civilized world with single-payer health care. We can then say we tried the Republican idea and it failed. Bring on single-payer health care, just like Dole, Hatch, Cheney, Romney,Grassley, Lugar, Lott, and Helms were trying to avoid by proposing individual mandate based universal health care.

Except, you know, there's the science that says that variations of that magnitude in the composition of the atmosphere, both based on basic physics that operates in whole range of other phenomena, and on the basis of historical record does in fact affect the climate. These things were understood 100 years ago, this is old and now basic science. You might think that those numbers look insignificant but the moon also looks larger than the sun.

This trope is just comical. "Bachmann is too much for your liberal feminist mindset, man." She's, what a "maverick"? It's getting a bit tired. The criticisms of Bachmann are clear she's a extremist and not terribly bright. In that, she fits pretty squarely within the Republican preliminary field pretty squarely. It has little to do with her being a woman, and everything to do with lack of qualification and the fact that 80% of the country disagrees with her on her fundamental views about what the federal government should do on a wide variety of issues. Do we really need another season of whinging about being victimized by the main-stream media?

If only we could enjoy a "European style health care system." Better health outcomes for less money, yeah lot to complain about there. Virtually every single comparative study of the US health care system shows that it is less than mediocre.

But like the CBO projections of saving listening to the evidence would require that we believe that there is a difference between people who know something and those who just say what they feel whether there is any evidence for it or not.

So 8 hours of class-time, and assume 2 hours of prep/grading for each hour of class time. So that's 24 hours of work with from the teaching load. Then assume most faculty full-time are 66% teaching 33% research and service (committee work, supervision, etc.) So that 36 hours right there.

Now many of us teach 3 courses a semester--so do the maths there. And at some c.c.'s the teaching load is 5 courses a semester . . ..

Nevermind that many of us whatever our teaching load is, probably do 50-60 hours of work a week.

Looking at the numbers that this country was at its most prosperous when taxes were highest. Over the last 50 years (1960-2010), with just a couple years of exceptions (for cleaning up Republican messes) deficits decline under Democrats and increase under Republicans.

Well, unless you are suggesting that the Clean Water Act is going to be repealed in 2 years or that the EPA is gong to stop following the law as they were doing even during the Bush administration regulating point source polluters, or that the courts are going to reverse 20+ years of decisions, then presumably nothing that happens in 2012 is going to change this, or hopefully the progress that we have made during the last 40 years to reduce pollution of our nation.

And the pollution that is worried about is not something you can see walking the beaches. The EPA's application of Nixon Clean Water Act, or more specifically the Reagan Water Quality Act, is concerned with preventing untreated sewage water into the Lake.

The government already unlawfully takes money from some businesses and gives it to the oil companies. Oh, wait, that's not unlawful, its legal. So. . . .

As for central planning. If offering tax incentives amounts to central planning of the economy then c.p. is probably a good thing. Of course, you want to suggest by the phrase "central planning" that the government controls the whole economy which is just ludicrous.

The vast majority of conveniences you now enjoy whether mouthing off on the internet or watching your HD t.v. or listening to you c.d. came about in part because of "central planning." And when we've dropped the price of electric vehicles to competitive levels with standard cars and gas hits 8-10 a gallon we'll have the gummint to thank for not listening to the short sighted who would have cancelled funding for the internet 20 years ago because it involves "central planning."

Man, I get you're trying to be funny, but with a massive temperature anomaly 40 degrees above average over the course of a month across much of north east Canada. . .. The causes are complex, low levels of sea ice, negative NAO, La nina, but just because we're having an average winter doesn't mean that other regions nearby aren't in the middle of extremely anomalous climate events. We need to look beyond our front porches.

Except of course that isn't the argument that she's making. We call what you're doing the fallacy of the straw man. Her argument is simple.

1. Administrative assistants are valuable (example Sue).
2. AA's deserve to be paid a living wage.
3. Governor Kasich is cutting salaries of the lower wage earners in the government.
4. Governor Kasich is dramatically increasing the salaries of higher wage earners in his administration.
5. This is probably unjust and if nothing else probably reveals Governor Kasich's priorities and the real effects of his corporate policies in exacerbating economic inequality.

Sure there could be all sorts of reasons that justify premise 3 and 4--and your speculations are amusing if not perhaps very plausible.

Connie Schulz's argument is best understood as an inductive argument that makes the conclusion more likely than not.

While there are few reasonable questions raised among the vitriol of testosterone fueled abuse, all they do is suggest that there may be more information to reach a final judgment on the matter. As always, we have Connie Schulz's reporting to thank for bringing this question to wider attention.

Nope. We have a model of the relationship between CO2 concentrations and temperature grounded in physics (greenhouse gas effect which explains everything, well from greenhouses to the temperature of Venus and Mars, as well as the hospitality of earth to life), we have a vast quantity of extrapolated data from indirect evidence of atmospheric conditions, we have a predictive hypothesis that is continually refined and continually confirmed in the face of new data and modeling, we have some predictions that are undoubtedly not certainties but raise enough concern to be taken seriously even with being inexact, and we have broad consensus among climate scientists that this fits together to make it extremely likely that human action is affecting the climate and very likely that there will be significant adverse effects borne by our children and grand-children, and finally some hopefully small likelihood of biblical-order catastrophe.

What we don't have is a clear plan for what to do to minimize harm and avoid the worst risks while still preserving our standard of living and future development of the world's population.

We do not extrapolate from just 120 years to the history of the earth--such comments just reveal the profound ignorance of science and this research in particular.

Of course, we're going to regret it. There were three sets of jobs that Kasich just vetoed. First, the construction jobs for revamping/building the corridor. Loss of construction jobs is one of the biggest problems with our unemployment especially among non-college degreed men. Second, there would be manufacturing jobs for the materials. Wouldn't it be interesting if Ohio invested in businesses that manufactured for rail projects rather than buying Chinese. That was part of the reason that Ohio was chosen for such a big project we have the skilled workers and they need the work. Third, all of the jobs that would be needed to run the system from service to maintenance.

One study suggested that almost 500,000 people would ride this service each year. It requires, supposedly, only about 120 million of state investment to complete. And if it succeeded we might find ourselves improving it to create real high speed, which might attract 3x the ridership.

California, Florida, and New York are opening the Champagne and thanking Ohio for electing this ideologue.

Plenty of evidence of tax paying by undocumented workers out there. Both thei Federal Govt and State Governments have analyzed it at various times. The CBO has a helpful overview report

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8711/12-6-Immigration.pdf

Though as they argue, states and locales do not make up all of the costs of illegal immigrants from tax revenues and federal assistance. This would be true for some populations of citizens as well.

As I understand it the argument is that the SSA sets aside W2's with mismatched SSN which are likely to be illegal immigrants and we know how much of that money goes into Social Security. So the estimate is that illegal immigrants contribute 6-7 billion a year into our Social Security Fund.

Well, actually yes. Some 6 billion dollars into your social security fund each year is paid by undocumented workers in this country, which pays for American citizens to be able to retire. This does not count Medicaid/care or income taxes, of which once again billions of dollars are paid by undocumented workers. Never mind property taxes and sales taxes. And although undocumented workers file income taxes with the IRS they are unable to take advantage of all of the tax benefits that are given to poor citizens (EITC etc.). Further, they typically use less of the services they are paying for than the poor citizens. They are in effect subsidizing American privileges.

How many Americans would there be without birthright citizenship? Only those living on the reservations. Our nation was founded on the principle that the sins of the parents are not visited on the children. This young man is an American citizen and this nation is as much his as it is mine. I hope his family survives the dislocation, and one day he returns to become a productive contributing member of our nation and then can perhaps bring his family who sacrificed so much for him here to live with him.

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